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Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill: draft Government amendments depositedpapers.parliament.uk/depositedpap...
Secretary Liz Kendall: Clause 5, page 5, line 26, at end insert— “(4A) The power to make regulations under subsection (3) must be exercised so as to secure that the amendments made by subsection (1) do not apply to a determination of whether a person has limited ability, or severely limited ability, to carry out daily living activities if— (a) the person was entitled to personal independence payment immediately before the coming into force of those amendments, and (b) the person continued to be entitled to personal independence payment until the making of that determination.” Member's explanatory statement: This Amendment will secure that the new 4-point requirement for personal independence payment eligibility will not apply to existing claimants. Clause 5, page 4, line 38, leave out from beginning to end of line 16 on page 5 Member's explanatory statement: The provision omitted by this amendment provided for a temporary continuation of personal independence payment where an existing claimant was found to be ineligible under the new rules. As amendment [OPC33] will secure that the new rules do not apply to existing claimants, the provision omitted is redundant. Schedule 2, page 16, line 18, at end insert— “(5) The power to make an order under sub-paragraph (3) must be exercised so as to secure that the amendments made by sub-paragraph (1) do not apply to a determination of whether a person has limited ability, or severely limited ability, to carry out daily living activities if— (a) the person was entitled to personal independence payment immediately before the coming into force of those amendments, and (b) the person continued to be entitled to personal independence payment until the making of that determination.” Member's explanatory statement: This Amendment will secure that the new 4-point requirement for personal independence payment eligibility will not apply to existing claimants. Schedule 2, page 15, line 23, leave out from beginning to end of li…
June 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Line-by-line scrutiny www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
… Page 741, after line 11, insert the following: ‘‘(iii) SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER DEFINED.—For purposes of clause (i), the term ‘social security number’ shall have the meaning given such term in section 24(h)(7).’’. Page 759, strike line 12 and all that follows through page 760, line 19. Page 760, line 20, strike ‘‘(d)’’ and insert ‘‘(c)’’. Page 790, line 16, strike ‘‘MAGA’’ and insert ‘‘TRUMP’’. Page 790, line 19, strike ‘‘MAGA’’ and insert ‘‘TRUMP’’. Page 790, line 20, strike ‘‘MAGA’’ and insert ‘‘TRUMP’’. Page 790, line 21, strike ‘‘MAGA’’ and insert ‘‘Trump’’. Page 791, line 3, strike ‘‘MAGA’’ and insert ‘‘Trump’’. Page 791, lines 5 and 6, strike ‘‘ ‘money account for growth and advancement’ or’’. Page 791, line 6, strike ‘‘MAGA’’ and insert ‘‘Trump’’. Page 791, line 11, strike ‘‘MAGA’’ and insert ‘‘Trump’’. Page 794, line 3, strike ‘‘MAGA’’ and insert ‘‘Trump’’. Page 794, line 9, strike ‘‘MAGA’’ and insert ‘‘Trump’’. Page 795, line 10, strike ‘‘MAGA’’ and insert ‘‘Trump’’. Page 795, line 16, strike ‘‘MAGA’’ and insert ‘‘Trump’’. Page 795, line 22, strike ‘‘MAGA’’ and insert ‘‘Trump’’. Page 797, line 3, strike ‘‘MAGA’’ and insert ‘‘Trump’’. Page 797, line 10, strike ‘‘MAGA’’ and insert ‘‘Trump’’. Page 797, line 11, strike ‘‘MAGA’’ and insert ‘‘Trump’’. Page 797, line 22, strike ‘‘MAGA’’ and insert ‘‘Trump’’. Page 797, line 24, strike ‘‘MAGA’’ and insert ‘‘Trump’’. Page 798, line 19, strike ‘‘MAGA’’ and insert ‘‘Trump’’. Page 798, line 20, strike ‘‘MAGA’’ and insert ‘‘Trump’’. Page 799, line 2, strike ‘‘MAGA’’ and insert ‘‘Trump’’. Page 799, line 3, strike ‘‘MAGA’’ and insert ‘‘Trump’’. Page 799, line 6, strike ‘‘MAGA’’ and insert ‘‘Trump’’. Page 799, line 8, strike ‘‘MAGA’’ and insert ‘‘Trump’’. Page 799, line 9, strike ‘‘MAGA’’ and insert ‘‘Trump’’. Page 800, line 3, strike ‘‘MAGA’’ and insert ‘‘Trump’’. Page 800, line 5, strike ‘‘MAGA’’ and insert ‘‘Trump’’. Page 800, line 14, strike ‘‘MAGA’’ and insert ‘‘Trump’’. Page 800, line 17, strike ‘‘MAGA’’ and insert ‘‘…
June 1, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Sentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reports) Bill bills.parliament.uk/bills/3955
Sentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reports) Bill [AS INTRODUCED] A BILL TO Make provision about sentencing guidelines in relation to pre-sentence reports. BE IT ENACTED by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:— 1. Sentencing guidelines about pre-sentence reports (1) Section 120 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (sentencing guidelines) is amended as follows. (2) After subsection (4) insert— “(4A) But sentencing guidelines about pre-sentence reports may not include provision framed by reference to different personal characteristics of an offender.” (3) After subsection (11) insert— “(12) For the purposes of this section— “personal characteristics” include, in particular— (a) race; (b) religion or belief; (c) cultural background; “pre-sentence report” has the same meaning as in the Sentencing Code (see section 31 of the Code).” 2. Extent, commencement and short title (1) This Act extends to England and Wales only. (2) This Act comes into force on the day after the day on which it is passed. (3) This Act may be cited as the Sentencing Guidelines (Pre-sentence Reports) Act 2025. Bill 217 59/1
April 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Also, beware the rogue Seal. www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/ac... #ActsAndOrdinancesOfTheInterregnum archive.org/details/acts...
An Ordinance for establishing a new Seale for the County Palatine of Lancaster. [17 December, 1644.] Whereas the Dutchy Seale belonging to the County Palatine of Lancaster, hath been forceably taken from Christopher Banister Esquire, Vice-Chancellor of the said County, by the forces raised against the Parliament: In the want whereof, neither Sheriff nor Justice of Peace, could be made for that County, nor common Justice administred unto the Inhabitants thereof, unto their unsufferable prejudice and detriment. [New Seal for Duchy of Lancaster authorized. Seal to be sent to Christopher Banister, Vice-Chancellor of County. All Acts done by former Seal since its removal from said C. Banister to be void.] Be it therefore Declared and Ordained by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, That a Dutchy Seal already by them provided and made, shall be forthwith put in use, and shall be, and is hereby authorized and established to be of like force, power and validity, to all intents and purposes, as any Dutchy Seal of the County Palatine of Lancaster heretofore hath been or ought to be: And the said Seal shall be forthwith sent by a Messenger, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Commons, to the said Christopher Banister, who is hereby authorized and ordered, during the pleasure of both Houses of Parliament, to put the same Seale in use, and to doe and performe all Acts and things, as fully and amply as hee or any other Vice-Chancellor hath formerly done or performed; and to doe and performe such other Acts and things therewith, as he shall receive directions for, from both Houses of Parliament. And it is further Ordered and Ordained, That all Acts whatsoever, that have been done by the said former Dutchy Seale for the County Palatine of Lancaster, since the same was taken away from the said Christopher Banister, as aforesaid, or any Act or thing that hereafter shall be done, by that or any other Dutchy Seal, for the County Palatine of Lancaster (other then wh…
December 24, 2024 at 11:10 PM
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A reminder from the Statute Book of 1644 that the last Wednesday of the month is a Fast day; no exceptions. www.british-history.ac.uk/lords-jrnl/v... #SolemneHumiliation babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc...
An Ordinance for the better observation of the monethly Fast ; and more especially the next Wednesday, commonly called The Feast of the Nativity of Christ, Thorowout the Kingdome of England and Dominion Wales. [19 December, 1644.] [Public notice to be given for observation of Monthly Fast till further order. And on the next day, being Christmas Day, in particular.] Whereas some doubts have been raised whether the next Fast shall be celebrated, because it falleth on the day which heretofore was usually called the feast of the Nativity of our Saviour. The Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled doe order and ordaine that publique notice be given that the Fast appointed to be kept on the last Wednesday in every moneth ought to be observed untill it be otherwise ordered by both Houses of Parliament : And that this day in particular is to be kept with the more solemne humiliation, because it may call to remembrance our sinnes, and the sinnes of our forefathers, who have turned this Feast, pretending the memory of Christ into an extreame forgetfulnesse of him, by giving liberty to carnall and sensuall delights, being contrary to the life which Christ himselfe led here upon earth, and to the spirituall life of Christ in our soules for the sanctifying and saving whereof Christ was pleased both to take a humane life, and to lay it down againe.
December 24, 2024 at 11:10 PM
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Contrasting signatures of Guido Fawkes, before and after torture
December 7, 2024 at 1:17 AM
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Not so much a signature as a Rorschach test
Eighteen scarcely legible signatures of the then Prime Minister, Liz Truss
December 6, 2024 at 10:48 PM
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To govern is to choose
*government* Lower case unless it’s a full title. For example: ‘UK government’, but ‘His Majesty’s Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland’. Also ‘Welsh Government’, as it’s the full title.
November 17, 2024 at 9:10 PM
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The Architects Registration Board forbidding cash or cheque as means of payment www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/10... but not above accepting (say) guano
Amendment to the Architects (Fees, Electronic Communications and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022 2.—(1) Regulation 2 (fees) of the Architects (Fees, Electronic Communications and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022(2) is amended as follows. (2) Omit paragraph (2). (3) After paragraph (4) insert— “…(4G) A fee charged under this regulation may be paid by any means except cash or cheque.”.
October 10, 2024 at 8:50 PM
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One hundred years ago and it was all kicking off for the incoming Labour government www.bloomsbury.com/uk/wild-men-... A salutary look at the few months in 1924 which established Labour as a party of government yet saw its triumphant leader soon beleaguered
Timeline of the first Labour Government [1924 continued] 13 August: The prosecution against John Campbell is withdrawn 16 August: The London Conference concludes with a protocol on the French occupation of the Ruhr and German reparations 3 September: MacDonald becomes the first UK Prime Minister to address the League of Nations 12 September: The _Daily Mail_ reveals that the Prime Minister owns shares in McVitie’s 22 September: Asquith publishes a letter attacking the Russian Treaties 30 September: Parliament meets to consider legislation amending the Anglo-Irish Treaty and the ‘Campbell Case’ 8 October: Government loses confidence vote in the Commons 9 October: Parliament is dissolved 10 October: A copy of the ‘Zinoviev Letter’ arrives at the Foreign Office
October 8, 2024 at 8:26 PM
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“The Windsor Framework’s rights provisions have proven difficult for the courts to navigate. They turn their face into the wind of Brexit’s ‘take back control’ narrative. But … the Northern Ireland courts have risen to this challenge.”
The Windsor Framework’s (WF’s) rights provisions have proven difficult for the courts to navigate. They turn their face into the wind of Brexit’s “take back control” narrative. They involve the courts in interpreting elements of the 1998 Agreement that were loosely drafted, precisely because they were not intended at the time to be adjudicated. They also introduce a separate set of rights protections for just one part of the UK which it is easy for legislators to overlook. But the legal mechanism, when these countervailing factors are set to the side, is workable and grinds to familiar conclusions based upon the way these aspects of EU law operated before Brexit, provided the courts are willing to set these extraneous factors aside. And the Northern Ireland courts have risen to this challenge.
September 20, 2024 at 11:46 PM
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Tax relief for prime ministerial expenses, thanks to a right honourable friend: 1947 babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=in... to date www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/1...
Mr. Scott-Elliot asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement with regard to the treatment for taxation purposes of the expenses which have to be met by the occupant of the post of Prime Minister, having regard to the changed conditions since the salary of the post was fixed by Statute in 1937. The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Dalton): Yes, Sir. An additional £5,000 a year was added to the salary of the Prime Minister in 1937 in order to enable him to discharge the public duties indispensable to his office and to his residence at No. 10, Downing Street. While there has been no reduction in these duties, the effect of taxation has been to reduce the net salary to about the same sum as before the increase. It has, therefore, been decided that £4,000 of the salary of the office should be treated as an expenses allowance which will be deducted for Income Tax. I am sure that the House will agree that the arrangement is a fair and reasonable means… 368. Fixed sum deductions from earnings payable out of public revenue (1) A deduction is allowed from earnings payable out of the public revenue for the employee’s fixed sum expenses in respect of the duties to which the earnings relate. (2) “Fixed sum expenses” means the sum, if any, fixed by the Treasury as in their opinion representing the average annual expenses which employees of the employee’s description are obliged to pay wholly, exclusively and necessarily in the performance of duties to which such earnings relate. (3) This section needs to be read with section 330(2) (prevention of double deductions).
September 17, 2024 at 8:11 PM
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“The flag was duly hoisted” on September 13 archive.org/details/cu31...
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Government House, Rabaul, New Britain, September 14, 1914. Sir, As the warships are not leaving here for Sydney until to-morrow, I take the opportunity of forwarding you some further information as to our doings yesterday. The flag was duly hoisted yesterday (Sunday afternoon) at three o’clock, the warships in the harbour co-operating by firing a salute. … The Admiral and all officers of the fleet were present at the ceremony, which I studied to make as impressive as possible, both for the benefit of the European residents and the natives. Immediately upon the flag being broken the troops gave a royal salute, after which the National Anthem was sung by all present. Three cheers were then given for His Majesty the King. After this the Proclamation of which I forward you herewith a copy was read by the Brigade Major, and the whole of the troops—Navy and Army—native police, and a large number of friendly natives, marched past the flag in column of route and saluted it. …
September 12, 2024 at 8:23 AM
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This handwritten copy transcribe.awm.gov.au/transcriptio... was sent to his brother by Private Errol Devlin www.awm.gov.au/collection/P...
on 9 November 1914 www.awm.gov.au/collection/C... h/t www.pngaa.net/WW1/Bitapaka...
Read to Natives on the annexation of the late German Possessions in the Pacific. Raubal, September 12th 1914 All boys belongina one place, you savvy big master he come now, he new feller master, he strong feller too much, you look, him all ship stop place; he small feller ship belongina him. Plenty more big feller he stop place belongina him, now he come here to take all place. He look out good you fellers. Now he like you feller look out good alonga him. Suppose other feller master, he been speak you, "you no work alonga new feller master" he gammon suppose you work good with this new feller master he look out good along you, he look out you get plenty good feller kai - kai'; he no fighting black boy alonga nothing. You look him new feller flag, you savvy him. He belonga British (English) he more better than other feller; … Me been talk with you now, now you give three good feller cheers belongina new feller master NO MORE 'UM KAISER GOD SAVE 'UM KING
September 12, 2024 at 8:17 AM
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New Britain, in the Bismarck Archipelago of what was then German New Guinea en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Bri...
12 September, 1914 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...
Two proclamations: archive.org/details/Aust...
one in English;
one in Tok Pisin, the local pidgin/creole en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tok_Pisin
G. R. PROCLAMATION. PROCLAMATION on behalf of His Majesty George the Fifth, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the Dominions Overseas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India. By Colonel William Holmes, D.S.O., V.D., Brigadier Commanding His Majesty’s Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force. WHEREAS the forces under my command have occupied the Islands of New Britain… 1. From and after the date of these presents, the Island of New Britain and its dependencies are held by me in Military occupation in the name of His Majesty the King. 2. War will be waged only against the armed forces of the German Empire and its Allies in the present war. 3. The lives and private property of peaceful inhabitants will be protected, and the laws and customs of the Colony will remain in force so far as is consistent with the Military situation. … Given at Government House, Rabaul, this Twelfth day of September, 1914. … GOD SAVE THE KING.
September 12, 2024 at 8:16 AM
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It goes up to 11 www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/91...
Citation and commencement 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Air Navigation (Restriction of Flying) (Stonehenge) (No. 2) Regulations 2024 and they come into force on 20th December 2024. Interpretation 2. In regulation 3(2) the times referred to are Co-ordinated Universal Time. Restricted airspace 3.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), for the period beginning with 1700 hours on 20th December 2024 and ending with 1100 hours on 21st December 2024 no aircraft is to fly below 3,000 feet above mean sea level within the area bounded by a circle having a radius of 3 nautical miles whose centre is at 511044N 0014934W.
September 10, 2024 at 4:11 PM
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House of Lords reform got real www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/4695715
STATE Departments of State CROWN OFFICE THE KING has been pleased, by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm dated 30th August 2024 to confirm the appointment of the Right Honourable Richard Simon Hermer, K.C., M.P., as His Majesty’s Attorney General.
September 5, 2024 at 1:03 AM
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Product Regulation and Metrology Bill bills.parliament.uk/bills/3752/p... ambulatory law ftw
(6) Product requirements may— (a) refer to technical standards published by a person specified in the regulations (including standards as amended from time to time), and (b) provide that meeting a particular technical standard creates a presumption of compliance with a particular product requirement. UK Internal Market divergence: To ensure dual access to both the UK Internal Market and the EU Single Market, Northern Ireland continues to apply certain EU product safety and metrology rules under the Windsor Framework. The powers conferred by this Bill will ensure we can continue to respond to any new EU legal developments that may have internal market impacts and facilitate the continued smooth flow of goods between GB and Northern Ireland.
September 5, 2024 at 12:39 AM
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Carol Tullo and predecessors held the office of Queen’s Printer for Acts of Parliament as Controller of HMSO www.thegazette.co.uk/all-notices/... but her 2017 successor Jeff James was a rung higher on the management ladder… cdn.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/le...
ELIZABETH THE SECOND by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Our other Realms and Territories Queen Head of the Commonwealth Defender of the Faith To all to whom these Presents shall come Greeting Whereas We did by Our Letters Patent under the Great Seal bearing date the twentieth day of August in the fiftieth year of Our Reign and in the year of Our Lord Two thousand and one grant unto Our trusty and well beloved Mrs. Carol Anne Tullo then Controller of Our Stationery Office the Office of Printer to Us of all Acts of Parliament and did thereby appoint her to hold and exercise all rights and privileges in connection with copyrights the property of Us during Our pleasure Now Know Ye that We do hereby revoke the said Letters Patent And Further Know Ye that We of Our especial grace Do by these Presents grant unto Our trusty and well beloved Jeffrey Daniel Dominic James Esquire Keeper of Public Records the Office of Printer to Us…
September 4, 2024 at 5:07 PM
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Shilling for Britain library.royalmintmuseum.org.uk/archive/roya...
In spite of this, local shortages of shillings were occasionally reported in the early months of the year. This has become an annual occurrence. On the other hand, in the later months, just before Christmas, it is very difficult to get the Banks to accept shillings. The demand for halfcrowns and florins at that time strains the Mint’s capacity, only to be replaced by urgent requests for shillings as soon as the cold weather commences in February, and the prepayment meters of the Gas and Electricity authorities absorb more than they disgorge. In an attempt to prevent, or at least to mitigate, this inconvenience, the Mint accumulated a reserve of seven million shillings at the end of the year. More than this was not possible without endangering the Silver Recovery programme, which provides the Silver to repay a Lease Lend Debt to the United States. …
September 3, 2024 at 9:58 PM
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The House of Commons is your parents; the House of Lords your grandparents. Bicameralism deftly explained
If the House of Lords ducks out of the tough fights, what is its value as a revising chamber? … My wife came up with an elegant solution, which goes something like this. The House of Commons is your parents. They are in charge, and they set the rules – whom you can go and play with, when you must go to bed. But sometimes they need advice – whether they know it or not – from someone else. That is where, if you are lucky enough to have them, grandparents come in. They don’t make the decisions but they give advice. They are listened to – sometimes – because they are older (and with an average age of 71, the Lords are certainly that); they know about some things that parents don’t; and above all they have more time. The last point is crucial – in the Lords the government cannot easily bring debates on legislation to a close, which allows time for concerns to be explored in detail.
August 26, 2024 at 2:28 PM